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Semeia 16: Perspectives on Mark’s Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

its full meaning for the author can only be understood in light of the complete Markan narrative, for it is here that we are shown the content of the commission which Jesus received. 1.13 Although Jesus’ commission is central in Mark, many other commissions and tasks are suggested. For each person who acts with purpose a commission or task can be assumed. Of course, many of the story characters in Mark appear only in a single episode, so it is not obvious that their commissions and tasks contribute
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